Bit-patterned media breaks up the recording surface into numerous magnetic bits, each consisting of a few magnetic grains. Under a microscope, the magnetic bits look like thousands of tiny spheres crammed next to each another. Data is stored on these magnetic bits: One magnetic bit can hold one bit of data.
Just like every other hard drive! Hooray for the future!
Offtopic, but I highly recommend Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, the autobiography he narrated on his deathbed. It's got some great stories in it, like when he surreptitiously went around picking locks at Los Alamos or his personal recollections of the Trinity nuclear tests.
What is up with this crazy tag attached to the story?
songofthetwomilelinearparticleacceleratorstanforduniversity Doesn't it defeat the purpose of a tagging system entirely if every article has unique tags?
Speculation, perhaps, though exactly pure. They've got some data to back up their claims.
From the article: "Studies of sediment samples and a meteorite from this time period indicate that the Chicxulub impactor had a carbonaceous chondrite composition much like the well-known primitive meteorite Murchison. This composition is enough to rule out many potential impactors but not those from the Baptistina family. Using this information in their simulations, the team found a 90 percent probability that the object that formed the Chicxulub crater was a refugee from the Baptistina family." (emphasis added)
They tested the orbits and chemical compositions of a bunch of NEO's. The orbits fit this group, and the chemical composition fit the Yucatan crater.
1) Call Microsoft, as was already mentioned. I know this works for activating Office on multiple machines.
2) Disable the Security Center service and it will never come back. Yay! Also kills the antivirus warnings.
I'm the systems admin (domain admin. donning asbestos suit.) for a small/medium busines in New Orleans. We use one Netscreen25 in our main office downtown. That gives us granular control over individual users' security policies if desired, but I'm in the process of moving them all to a single policy to ease administration. The box can maintain 125 concurent tunnels. It can do quite a bit of other craziness as well, but I haven't worked here long enough to get deep into it. Too much other stuff to do. Not absolutely certain about the cross-platform client, so you can look that up yourself.;)
In addition to the individual user VPNs, the Netscreen maintains persistant tunnels to two remote sites. They're equipped with Netgear ProSafe FVL328 routers. Less capable with low(er) throughput, but the branch end has to deal with a whole lot less traffic. The NS downtown maintains security with its lesser peers, too.
Only for its humor. They sucked out anything else that may have been redeeming. This includes, but definitely is not limited to, any connection with anything else that happens anywhere else in the movie. I guess that kinda makes sense for a minigame, though.
-Yoweigh
A friend of mine got some screener passes so I went and saw this last night. I only have one word for the movie: AWFUL!
Let me say first of all that I was never a big fan of the game series. A number of the people I was with were, though, and they were just as dismayed as I was. There were little bits from the game stuck in there, but even those who caught them said they felt like scraps from the dinner table. The storyline vaguely follows the game, but I totally agree with Ebert for once. I even said to my friends afterwards that I felt dumber after having seen that movie.
I guess they must have realized their movie was terrible, because they threw in massive amounts of wanton violence and excessive gore in to try and cover it up. I had to actually turn my face away, something I've never had to do before, to avoid wathing a closeup of someone's face melting over a pyre. After that, it only got worse, and some of the disturbing stuff is definitely not from the game.
I have had the total opposite experience with Dell support. If your product's under warranty, they'll fix it. Just last week my laptop (Inspiron 8600) croaked. Dead motherboard. They had an on-site tech at my apartment swapping out the mobo within a single day! And I'm in New Orleans! I was extremely impressed by the level of service they delivered. This wasn't a fluke, either. I've had 24-hour turnarounds on major hardware issues in the past.
Granted, it'd be nicer not to have these problems in the first place, but it's better than nothing.
My first computing experience, I believe, was on a good old Tandy in kindergarten back around '87 or so. The first computer that was actually mine was a Mac LCII purchased around '90. Don't worry. That's the only Mac I ever had. (aside from those I pickud up for nostalgic purposes)
-Yoweigh
No, I wan't joking, but I did find out about the hoax thing about 15 minutes after making the post. I was too lazy to come back and post a correction at the time, however. Thanks for pointing it out so I didn't have to.:)
-Yoweigh
I had an old Mattel Intellivision that was one of my earliest childhood friends. My parents (gamers?!) bought it before I was born in early '83. You know how kids have their 'security blanket' or whatever? I had my little green pillow named Po. Mom and Dad tried pretty hard to get me to dispense of it for a long time, until they made the offer of a copy of Commando for the Intellivision. Po was gone in under a second.
The Intellivision was one of my most treasured pieces of historic gaming hardware. Sadly, it was sucked by Katrina's storm surge (along with the rest of the house that contained it) in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
Who is seriously stupid enough to believe, much less report, that Nintendo would be selling out to an American company? Microsoft already tried this, and Ballmer got quite a response from Hiroshi Yamauchi, the 77 year old ex-Nintendo president. To make his feelings blatantly obvious, he stood on a chair, cupped his hands over his mouth, and suggested the following:
"Hey, Ballmer, why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls?"
He even said it in plain English, after having an interpreter for the rest of the conversation, for added clarity. He also likened the acceptance of such a deal to "a defeat comparable to World War 2" despite the fact that M$ offered what Yamauchi-san described as the largest sum of money he'd ever heard of. I highly doubt that Cisco's chances would be any better.
I disagree. The RAID array negates the dependability advantage of SCSI through data redundancy. If the question submitter isn't worried about bus bandwidth, I don't see a reason why SATA shouldn't be a viable alternative.
I do agree that experimenting with servers isn't the greatest of ideas. However, this isn't really all that much of an experiment, and the hardware certainly won't be random. That's why he asked the question, and other posts have already made controller recommendations. The drives themselves are the same as good old ATA drives, mechanically, only with a different interface.
I wonder if any of these operators were able to contact other costal cities before the wave hit there. I read somewhere that there was somehting like a 2 hour lag between the time the first and last places were hit. Think that would even be enough time to accomplish anything?
-Yoweigh
I really hope this becomes a popular alternative for satellites as a provider of these services. This has got to cost significantly less, and hopefully these saving will be passed on to consumers.
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Bit-patterned media breaks up the recording surface into numerous magnetic bits, each consisting of a few magnetic grains. Under a microscope, the magnetic bits look like thousands of tiny spheres crammed next to each another. Data is stored on these magnetic bits: One magnetic bit can hold one bit of data.
Just like every other hard drive! Hooray for the future!
Panopticam?
I can't wait to see how the Apple faithful attempt to defend this one.
If you don't play WoW, you won't understand WTF they're saying.
I'm a big fan of black on white.
Mod up the parent post, please.
Oh, man. I had no idea there was a second volume. Purchased. Thank you very much.
Offtopic, but I highly recommend Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, the autobiography he narrated on his deathbed. It's got some great stories in it, like when he surreptitiously went around picking locks at Los Alamos or his personal recollections of the Trinity nuclear tests.
The answer to that question will basically be an obfuscated version of "because it would have sounded bad."
Speculation, perhaps, though exactly pure. They've got some data to back up their claims.
From the article: "Studies of sediment samples and a meteorite from this time period indicate that the Chicxulub impactor had a carbonaceous chondrite composition much like the well-known primitive meteorite Murchison. This composition is enough to rule out many potential impactors but not those from the Baptistina family. Using this information in their simulations, the team found a 90 percent probability that the object that formed the Chicxulub crater was a refugee from the Baptistina family. " (emphasis added)
They tested the orbits and chemical compositions of a bunch of NEO's. The orbits fit this group, and the chemical composition fit the Yucatan crater.
Mod up this post's parent, please. Sacrificing the security of your financial identity in exchange for a little bit of convenience is absurd.
1) Call Microsoft, as was already mentioned. I know this works for activating Office on multiple machines. 2) Disable the Security Center service and it will never come back. Yay! Also kills the antivirus warnings.
I'm the systems admin (domain admin. donning asbestos suit.) for a small/medium busines in New Orleans. We use one Netscreen25 in our main office downtown. That gives us granular control over individual users' security policies if desired, but I'm in the process of moving them all to a single policy to ease administration. The box can maintain 125 concurent tunnels. It can do quite a bit of other craziness as well, but I haven't worked here long enough to get deep into it. Too much other stuff to do. Not absolutely certain about the cross-platform client, so you can look that up yourself. ;)
In addition to the individual user VPNs, the Netscreen maintains persistant tunnels to two remote sites. They're equipped with Netgear ProSafe FVL328 routers. Less capable with low(er) throughput, but the branch end has to deal with a whole lot less traffic. The NS downtown maintains security with its lesser peers, too.
Flame much? I forgot my asbestos suit when I posted, damnit.
Only for its humor. They sucked out anything else that may have been redeeming. This includes, but definitely is not limited to, any connection with anything else that happens anywhere else in the movie. I guess that kinda makes sense for a minigame, though. -Yoweigh
A friend of mine got some screener passes so I went and saw this last night. I only have one word for the movie: AWFUL!
Let me say first of all that I was never a big fan of the game series. A number of the people I was with were, though, and they were just as dismayed as I was. There were little bits from the game stuck in there, but even those who caught them said they felt like scraps from the dinner table. The storyline vaguely follows the game, but I totally agree with Ebert for once. I even said to my friends afterwards that I felt dumber after having seen that movie.
I guess they must have realized their movie was terrible, because they threw in massive amounts of wanton violence and excessive gore in to try and cover it up. I had to actually turn my face away, something I've never had to do before, to avoid wathing a closeup of someone's face melting over a pyre. After that, it only got worse, and some of the disturbing stuff is definitely not from the game.
-Yoweigh
I have had the total opposite experience with Dell support. If your product's under warranty, they'll fix it. Just last week my laptop (Inspiron 8600) croaked. Dead motherboard. They had an on-site tech at my apartment swapping out the mobo within a single day! And I'm in New Orleans! I was extremely impressed by the level of service they delivered. This wasn't a fluke, either. I've had 24-hour turnarounds on major hardware issues in the past.
Granted, it'd be nicer not to have these problems in the first place, but it's better than nothing.
My first computing experience, I believe, was on a good old Tandy in kindergarten back around '87 or so. The first computer that was actually mine was a Mac LCII purchased around '90. Don't worry. That's the only Mac I ever had. (aside from those I pickud up for nostalgic purposes) -Yoweigh
No, I wan't joking, but I did find out about the hoax thing about 15 minutes after making the post. I was too lazy to come back and post a correction at the time, however. Thanks for pointing it out so I didn't have to. :)
-Yoweigh
I had an old Mattel Intellivision that was one of my earliest childhood friends. My parents (gamers?!) bought it before I was born in early '83. You know how kids have their 'security blanket' or whatever? I had my little green pillow named Po. Mom and Dad tried pretty hard to get me to dispense of it for a long time, until they made the offer of a copy of Commando for the Intellivision. Po was gone in under a second.
The Intellivision was one of my most treasured pieces of historic gaming hardware. Sadly, it was sucked by Katrina's storm surge (along with the rest of the house that contained it) in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
Who is seriously stupid enough to believe, much less report, that Nintendo would be selling out to an American company? Microsoft already tried this, and Ballmer got quite a response from Hiroshi Yamauchi, the 77 year old ex-Nintendo president. To make his feelings blatantly obvious, he stood on a chair, cupped his hands over his mouth, and suggested the following:
"Hey, Ballmer, why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls?"
He even said it in plain English, after having an interpreter for the rest of the conversation, for added clarity. He also likened the acceptance of such a deal to "a defeat comparable to World War 2" despite the fact that M$ offered what Yamauchi-san described as the largest sum of money he'd ever heard of. I highly doubt that Cisco's chances would be any better.
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I disagree. The RAID array negates the dependability advantage of SCSI through data redundancy. If the question submitter isn't worried about bus bandwidth, I don't see a reason why SATA shouldn't be a viable alternative. I do agree that experimenting with servers isn't the greatest of ideas. However, this isn't really all that much of an experiment, and the hardware certainly won't be random. That's why he asked the question, and other posts have already made controller recommendations. The drives themselves are the same as good old ATA drives, mechanically, only with a different interface.
I wonder if any of these operators were able to contact other costal cities before the wave hit there. I read somewhere that there was somehting like a 2 hour lag between the time the first and last places were hit. Think that would even be enough time to accomplish anything? -Yoweigh
I really hope this becomes a popular alternative for satellites as a provider of these services. This has got to cost significantly less, and hopefully these saving will be passed on to consumers.